Beginners help

Sorry about not being a telepath. . . (:wink:)

What I do is:

  • Pick an airport - it really doesn’t matter which one.
    • If you want a lot of runway, pick something huge like Ramstein AFB in Germany, Heathrow in the UK, or JFK in the US - with AI traffic and ATC turned off in single player mode if you don’t want the distractions.
    • UUMO is near where I live when in Moscow with the grandchildren - and they like being able to fly/watch me fly over places they recognize.  Unfortunately, the runway there isn’t too long as it’s used primarily for business jets, helicopters, and such like.  I’ve gotten outta there with a DC-6, but you gotta use a bunch of flaps, or get the wheels up in a hurry, if you don’t want to clip the trees off the end of the runway!
  • Choose it as the ā€œdepartureā€ airport.  If you don’t want to spend a lot of time on the ground, spawn on whatever runway you want.
    • At UUMO, I usually use rwy 7, (though it defaults to rwy 25 which is not going the way I want), with engines running and go from there.

Most of the time I don’t bother picking a ā€œdestinationā€ airport as I am just puttering around and I land wherever I want whenever I get tired of flying.